{"id":1571,"date":"2006-07-18T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/clean-house\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:08:00","slug":"clean-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/clean-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean House!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what must have been an OCD fit, I hit the porch at 8am this morning armed with a nozzle sprayer, bucket, detergent and sponge. Our house got a bath.  The front of it at least. <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2787\/660\/1600\/IMG_7064.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2787\/660\/320\/IMG_7064.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scrubbing only occurred from my height down.  But it still made a huge difference.  I&#8217;m much, much, too excited over that awesome sprayer handle.  <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2787\/660\/1600\/IMG_7069.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2787\/660\/320\/IMG_7069.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other improvements include:<br \/>&#8211; New ferns.  The old ones were threatening to become fireballs in the heat.<br \/>&#8211; Grass seed and dirt over the existing &#8220;grass&#8221; (i.e.: weeds that grew in over the pebbles we&#8217;ve been digging up for the past two years)<br \/>&#8211; Caladium (19) and vinca (90).  Please grow in nicely, little plants!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask about the backyard.  Remember that patio Paul dug up?  Yeah, well, we&#8217;ll let you know when we find it again.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">It&#8217;s that scary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what must have been an OCD fit, I hit the porch at 8am this morning armed with a nozzle sprayer, bucket, detergent and sponge. Our house got a bath. The front of it at least. Scrubbing only occurred from my height down. But it still made a huge difference. I&#8217;m much, much, too excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}